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It is not the purpose of chkdsk /r to delete files or damage them in any way and this would not occur under normal conditions. However, if the drive has physical problems then this could happen, although not likely.

I have a windows installation usb that has windows 7. I was supposed to run chkdsk /r on my harddrive but instead I ran it on my usb by accident and it checked my usb. The usb is still able to load windows 7 installation. But I'm wondering if chkdsk could have possibly removed some features in the windows installation usb like the system recovery tools and made it corrupt

CHKDSK /R does it delete files

Lost files after chkdskWindows 7 Chkdsk searched my external hard drive for bad sector recovery, and it deleted hundreds of my most important folder and files.
unfortunately I have not any new backup from them.
The file system is NTFS.
How could I recover deleted file entries after windows chkdsk in NTFS partition...

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chkdsk c: /f /r /x damaged files, experts pls help!I had BSOD because of Avast, I tried rebuilding BCD, sfc scan etc but nothing worked.
So I ran chkdsk c: /f /r /x it took an hour after which i could log into windows but only to see my desktop text files are corrupted, only few of them are fine but rest not either readable or blank..same with...

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How to recover chkdsk saved files?chkdsk ran on a FAT32 SD card. It recovered two directories and several files which it put into files. How can I recover them?
The two directories it saved are in files with the same name as the directories used to be (i.e., "Masterpiece_Mystery_Zen_Ratking_720p_20110731_TTL", "Phantom")....

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how can i delete chkdsk logs files?Hi
i found out that inside the folder system volume information ,there is a folder called chkdsk full of logs files
they start with chkdsk*.log
can i delete them and how?
the clean disk tool doesn't delete them

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chkdsk on W7 startup deleted files ??Hello.
On windows (7, 64) startup i got (for the first time since i setup this Win 7 system in 2009) a chkdsk initiation on two different partitions ("E:" & "I:") on two different physical drives. "I:" was freshly recovered from accidental deletion so it makes sense. But "E:" is on a physical...